- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@m...>
- To: Mike.Champion@S..., xml-dev@l...
- Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 00:55:26 -0500
Title: RE: questions re WD-xml-infoset-20001220
FWIW
one reason the term "grove" is used instead of "tree" is for the very reason
that an attribute is not a child of its containing tag.
Jonathan Borden
The Open Healthcare Group
http://www.openhealth.org/
I presume the InfoSet did this to be consistent with the
DOM. It is a rather subtle
semantic (or perhaps
pedantic) point, I guess, but the children
of a DOM
Element are any sub-elements. Attributes are not children
of an Element ... so the element should not be the parent of the
attributes.
[How could I have a parent, if I am not a
child of that parent? Ponder that ...]
The DOM uses
the ownerElement property to identify the element that
contains a specific attribute
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